The Glenn Gould reader by Glenn Gould(
Book
)29
editions published
between
1984
and
1999
in
English and Finnish
and held by
1,035 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
As a pianist, Glenn Gould was both a showman and a high priest, an artist whose devotion to music was so great that he eschewed
the distractions of live performance. That same combination of flamboyance and aesthetic rigor may be found in this collection
of Gould's writings, which covers composers from Bach to Terry Riley, performers from Arthur Rubinstein to Petula Clark, and
yields unfettered and often heretical opinions on music competitions, the limitations of live audiences, and the relationship
between technology and art. Witty, emphatic, and finely honed, The Glenn Gould Reader presents its author in all his guises
as an impassioned artist, an omnivorous listener, and an astute and deeply knowledgeable critic. The Glenn Gould Reader abounds
with the literary voice of one of the most extraordinary musical talents of our time. Whether Gould's subject is Boulez, Stokowski,
Streisand, or his own highly individual thoughts on the performance and creation of music, the reader will be caught up in
his intensity, intelligence, passion and devotion. For those who never knew him, this book will be a particular treasure as
a companion to his recordings and as the delicious discovery of a new friend

Dawn Powell : a biography by Tim Page(
Book
)10
editions published
between
1998
and
2000
in
English and Italian
and held by
612 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Perhaps the biggest mystery of Dawn Powell's life is the fact that when she died, all of her books were out of print. She
seemed destined to be forgotten. Powell had come to New York City at the age of twenty-one, a gifted and ambitious young woman
from a small-town in Ohio. There she lived, usually in some form of domestic uncertainty, for the next forty-seven years.
But she always managed to maintain the fresh perspective of a "permanent visitor," exalting the multiplicity and sheer sensory
overload of Manhattan. This is what she distilled into her extensive and impressive body of work: her poems, stories, articles,
plays, and her dizzying and inventive novels

Virgil Thomson : music chronicles, 1940-1954 by Virgil Thomson(
Book
)3
editions published
in
2014
in
English
and held by
589 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
When, in October 1940, the New York Herald Tribune named the composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) its chief music critic, the
management of the paper braced itself for an uproar. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with librettist Gertrude Stein
on the whimsically nonsensical "anti-opera" Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson was notorious among conservative concertgoers
as a leader of America's musical avant-garde and a maverick writer who delighted in unmasking the timidity, amateurism, and
artistic pretensions of New York's music establishment. But controversy--together with wit, good writing, and critical authority--was
exactly what the Herald Tribune was looking for. "Only such an assumption can explain," Thomson later concluded, "why a musician
so little schooled in daily journalism, a composer so committed to the modern, and a polemicist so contemptuous as myself
of music's power structure should have been offered a post of that prestige." in Virgil Thomson the Herald Tribune got its
full share of controversy. It also got something American music journalism had not had before and has rarely had since: a
critic who could describe from experience the sounds he hears, the presence and temperaments of the musician producing them,
and the urgent matters of art, culture, tradition, talent, and taste that a musician's performance embodies, all in a signature
style that charmed a wide readership. "Thomson was open to every stylistic persuasion," John Rockwell of The New York Times
has written, and he "concerned himself with music that most music critics didn't consider music at all--jazz, folk, gospel.
... He wrote with enthusiasm and perception about the new music he liked, sweeping his readers along with him. By so doing,
he built bridges--long dilapidated or never constructed--between music, the other arts, and the American intellectual community.
Indeed, in his music and in his prose, he has given us as profound a vision of American culture as anyone has yet achieved."
Music Chronicles 1940-1954 presents the best of Thomson's newspaper criticism as the author collected it in four books long
out of print: The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948), Music Right and Left (1951), and Music Reviewed (1967).
The volume is rounded out by a generous selection of other writings from the Herald Tribune years and, in an appendix, eight
early essays in which Thomson announced the themes and developed the voice that would distinguish him as America's indispensable
composer-critic.--

The unknown Sigrid Undset : Jenny and other works by Sigrid Undset(
Book
)6
editions published
in
2001
in
English
and held by
550 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The collection includes the great novel Jenny, two short stories and selected letters

The state of music & other writings by Virgil Thomson(
Book
)4
editions published
in
2016
in
English
and held by
486 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic
Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works.
Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical
scene and Thomson's extraordinary career as one of the nation's foremost cultural critics. The volume opens with The state
of music (1939), the book that made Thomson's name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at
the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962,
surveys the challenges confronting the American composer attacks 'the philanthropic persons in control of our institutions'
who were suspicious of new works by homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland, The state of music was not just 'the most original
book on music that America has produced,' but 'the wittiest, the most provocative, the best written.' The best-selling autobiography
Virgil Thomson (1966) is a gossipy tale of one musician's progress from unteachable smart aleck to revered elder statesman.
It tells of an artistically precocious Kansas City boyhood, a demanding Harvard education, an apprenticeship in Paris between
the wars, and a hard-won musical and literary maturity in New York. As narrator and protagonist, Thomson fascinates not only
with his own story but also with those of his associates, collaborators, friends, and rivals, among them Gertrude Stein, Alice
B. Toklas, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Nadia Boulanger, George Antheil, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, Pare Lorentz,
John Houseman, and Orson Welles. Virgil Thomson is an authentic work of Americana and a first-rate, first-person history of
the rise of modernism. American Music Since 1910 (1971) is a pocket guide to the music of Thomson's lifetime as told through
brilliant biographical essays on its most accomplished makers, chief among them Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Aaron Copland,
Edgar Varèse, and John Cage. Thomson's final book, Music with Words (1989), is one that he was born to write: a handbook
for composers on the fine art of musical prosody, the setting of texts to music. Rounding out the volume are thirty-two essays,
speeches, and reviews--most of them previously uncollected--on subjects including Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, The New
Grove Dictionary, and the jazz scene of the 1970s"--From publisher's web site (www.loa.org)

The diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965 by Dawn Powell(
Book
)12
editions published
between
1995
and
1999
in
English
and held by
481 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Diaries which document the life and work of Dawn Powell who wrote satirical novels about New York City society. Describes
her friendships with John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Malcolm Crowley, and many others

Dawn Powell at her best by Dawn Powell(
Book
)5
editions published
in
1994
in
English
and held by
459 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Goldberg variations : BWV 988 by Johann Sebastian Bach(
Recording
)4
editions published
in
2002
in
Undetermined and English
and held by
455 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The unabridged Goldberg Variations, summum of J.S. Bach's keyboard compositions, performed on a harpsichord modeled after
Ruckers, re-voiced in quill, and tuned according to a newly discovered system which may have been Bach's own. The rarely heard
14 Goldberg Canons are an added bonus

Selected letters of Dawn Powell, 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell(
Book
)6
editions published
between
1999
and
2000
in
English
and held by
386 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Selected Letters of Dawn Powell, 1913-1965 traces a writer's fifty-two-year journey from her childhood in a small Ohio town
to the glitter of Manhattan cosmopolitan life." "Living most of her life in Greenwich Village, Powell supported herself as
a writer through the Depression and two world wars while nursing an autistic son, an alcoholic husband, and her own parade
of illnesses. In her correspondence we find the record of a life that produced fifteen novels, ten plays, and more than one
hundred stories." "Letters to such luminaries as Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, and the legendary editor Max Perkins are
filled with gossip and literary commentary; they also provide and in-depth look at Powell's own writing-in-progress and the
events and ideas that obsessed her."--Jacket

Music from the road : views and reviews, 1978-1992 by Tim Page(
Book
)7
editions published
in
1992
in
English
and held by
370 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Page covers a characteristically wide range of topics, from Irving Berlin's complex sweetness to Milton Babbitt's elegant
ferocity, from Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's wild-woman glamour to Mitsuko Uchida's infinitely articulated restraint, from Pavarotti
at the Garden to Sweeney Todd in the opera house. Special highlights are two moving profiles of Leonard Bernstein, a revealing
survey of musical prodigies, a trenchant discussion of opera fanatics, and Page's famous Piano Quarterly interview with Glenn
Gould. Other interviews offer surprising insights into the thought and works of Babbitt, John Gage, and, in a remarkable joint
interview, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Balancing an intimate knowledge of the music with an eternal capacity for being surprised,
Page is an ideal guide to the new, the old, and the radically unexpected

Four plays by Dawn Powell(
Book
)5
editions published
in
1999
in
English
and held by
283 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Rounding out the book are two unpublished (and as yet unproduced) plays that Powell wrote in the late 1920s - the experimental,
quasi-expressionist Women at Four O'Clock and a nostalgic bittersweet story of old New York, Walking Down Broadway, which
director Erich von Stroheim would later adapt into the Hollywood film Hello, Sister!"--Jacket

Glenn Gould : a life in pictures(
Book
)13
editions published
between
2002
and
2007
in
3
languages
and held by
261 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Glenn Gould: A Life in Pictures is the first photographic treatment of the life of one of the greatest and most fascinating
musicians of our time. This collection of more than 200 images includes a treasure trove of family pictures from the Glenn
Gould Estate and rare photos from the CBC archives, Sony Classical and the National Library of Canada

Tim Page on music : views and reviews by Tim Page(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2002
in
English
and held by
242 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Page is tremendously versatile, a musical polymath in his interests and understanding. This collection includes both short
pieces and longer articles, some about unique souls whom Page knew well and admired, including Glenn Gould and Otto Luening,
and others about whom he feels strongly in other ways, among them Vladimir Horowitz. He takes readers along for closeup glimpses
at Midori, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Dawn Upshaw, and Bobby McFerrin, as well as Frank Sinatra and Captain Beefheart, to name
just a few."--Jacket

A state of wonder : the complete Goldberg variations 1955 & 1981 by Johann Sebastian Bach(
)2
editions published
in
2002
in
Undetermined and English
and held by
227 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This set contains the 1955 performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations that won the young Glenn Gould world fame paired with
the pianist's second, vastly different, recording of the same piece, which came out only days before he died in 1982

What's God got to do with it? : Robert G. Ingersoll on free thought, honest talk, and the separation of church and state by Robert Green Ingersoll(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2005
in
English
and held by
198 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time
America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and
tireless advocate of the rights of women and African Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late nineteenth century
with his lectures on "freethought." His admirers included Mark Twain and Thomas A. Edison, who said Ingersoll had "all the
attributes of a perfect man" and went so far as to make an early recording of Ingersoll's voice. This new collection of Ingersoll's
thought promises to put Ingersoll back where he belongs, in the forefront of independent American thought.--From publisher
description

Hiroshima mon amour = Hiroshima, my love by Alain Resnais(
Visual
)1
edition published
in
2015
in
French
and held by
177 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming
mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering

Carnegie Hall treasures by Tim Page(
Book
)5
editions published
between
2010
and
2011
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
120 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Carnegie Hall Treasures is the story of the world's most famous musical institution. Ten thematic chapters?from vocalists,
conductors, and composers to rock and folk performers?offer a wealth of visuals of the jazz, world, classical, and popular
musicians who've graced the Carnegie Hall stages, accompanied by informative, entertaining anecdotes by Pulitzer Prize?winning
music writer Tim Page and Carnegie Hall